Gender: Figurative

Female figure back

Son of a leading painter, Modest Urgell, who he himself called a patum, he undertook a search for his own style and treatment of colour and light inherited from French impressionism. Shortly before the creation of this interior composition of the female figure, he had his first solo exhibition at the Sala Parés in 1917. […]

Child and photographs

Meticulous and technically accurate painter in the classic sense, his themes and style refer to a kind of surrealist universe and a magical realism very much his own. Precise in the brushwork, his work develops within the figurative artistic genre. Stylized images, often ironic, where the scene is sudden due to the detail of some […]

Girls in the light of a lantern

A realistic painter specialised in genre painting, as well as landscapes and portraits on commission. He had a preference for light-dark scenes and theatrical light effects, influenced by his work as an organiser and producer of plays. A pioneer in the art of cinematography, after having seen the great success enjoyed by the cinemas of […]

Manola

The work of Francesc Miralles, with a technique influenced by the work of Marià Fortuny and the “tableautin” trend (small, precious and easily understandable paintings, exotic and anecdotal in nature like the Spanish aesthetic), imposed by the art market and the French dealer Goupil connected with the refined and elegant tastes of the bourgeoisie of […]

Female figure

Les hortènsies de la sabatera [The cobbler’s hydrangeas]

We know Rusiñol’s desire to represent a closed compositional space. In this painting that was presented at a Paris Salon, he paints a corner of a courtyard where he places a girl playing with a doll next to a wall on which there are pots of long-stemmed hydrangeas that cover the entire wall , with […]

Gypsy woman with Baby

A leading artist in the satirical and humorous press of Paris at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century, he would alternate the themes of Flamenco and “La Espagnolade”, majas and gypsies, with that of the gallant and sheltered woman. Joan Cardona’s folkloric, visual and expressive style -Fauvist in the provocative use […]

The champagne glass

Genre painting with great attention to detail and in the precious style, the brushwork is traditional of gallant classicist painting that we also see in Fragonard and Wateau. We see the theme of modernity in the new protagonists, the inspiration of Paris nightlife and the amusement offered by the urban setting and leisure. The style […]

Gypsy woman sitting

Nonell painted figures of gypsies until 1907. With a sober, introspective and respectful look, he portrayed an old woman resting; the model was known as Grandma, of gypsy ethnicity. Reluctant to modernist aesthetics, his models were few and far between: Consol, the gypsy who provided him with his “grandmother”, represented in this work, his cousin […]

Bust of a lady

Painter, draughtsman and illustrator. Alongside Santiago Rusiñol, he determined the new direction and the move towards artistic modernity in Barcelona. From a wealthy family who liked to travel, in the year 1881 at the age of 15, he went to Paris to study with Charles Auguste Emile-Duran, known as Carolus. Based on the resemblance, this […]